This beautiful Christmas Card from Amy R. features a wonderful background that has texture, pattern and color. She used an embossing folder with Kraft cardstock and then Copic markers to color the raised embossed areas. I love all the splatter … Read More ...
Embossed Washi Tape Holiday Cards
Lydia combined two fun techniques to create these colorful card for the Holidays. She created her own custom background using washi tape and then ran it through an embossing folder to create pattern and texture. Notice how she only embossed … Read More ...
Fall Card with Pearl Watercolors
The combination of heat embossing and pearl watercolors gives such wonderful shimmer and shine to this Hello Fall Card. Lien heat embossed her stamped flowers onto brown cardstock, coloring them with the water colors which really pop on the darker … Read More ...
Autumn Thank You Note Cards
I love all the layers and textures on these beautiful Autumn Thank You Note Cards from Lisa. The combination of rich fall colors of cardstock with gold foiling is so elegant. She’s sharing step by step directions using products from … Read More ...
Fall Thinking of You Cards
These beautiful Fall Thinking of You cards from Amanda are so beautiful and elegant. She added lots of depth to the cards by layering her die cut leaves and sentiments with white underneath gold paper. The vellum behind the leaves … Read More ...
Autumn Wreath Card with Layering Stamps
Lydia used layering stamps from Altenew to create this beautiful Autumn Wreath Card. Layering stamp sets have the image outline and solid stamps to fill in color with ink pads. So if you’re not the best at coloring these sets … Read More ...
Unicorn Christmas Card
This delightful card from Kristina Werner combines so many magical elements like candy, rainbows, Christmas and unicorns! This card also has a fun interactive element, the unicorn wobbles! I love the dry embossed background she created with an embossing folder, … Read More ...
Embossing with Foiling Plates
Hot foil plates are used to add metallic foil in different designs and patterns to your cards and projects. But Angela had the idea to use them with out foil for a dry embossing technique. She combined both ideas to … Read More ...
How to Add Shading to Solid Stamps
Solid stamps, meaning a stamp that is not an outline but stamps out in a solid color, can sometimes look a little flat so shading can help give those images more dimension and realism. Lydia stamped up some beautiful solid … Read More ...
Dry Embossed and Water Colored Card
Dry embossing with an embossing folder with had a nice dimension to your card but adding color over top can sometimes flatted out the design. Lydia has a simple solution for that, after water coloring her floral dry embossed image … Read More ...
How to Emboss without an Embossing Folder
If you want to add a raised texture to your cardstock embossing folders are a great way to do so but there are other ways to do this technique like using stencils. Lynn used a rubber embossing mat in her … Read More ...
Slimline Flamingos Card with Shimmer Paste
Lynne used cute Flamingo stamps from Art Impressions for this fun couples card, perfect for a wedding or anniversary card. She added wonderful depth and color to her card background using shimmer paste over top of a dry embossed panel. … Read More ...
Vase of Roses Card Tutorial
Shauna has a few cool techniques to share for making this pretty Vase of Roses Card. First she used a die with a rubber mat to emboss instead of cut her card background, she ink blended the vase, then she … Read More ...
Kitty Cat Birthday Cards
If you have a cat lover on your birthday card list then this one is purrrfect! I used white core cardstock with some dies and an embossing folder and sanded the paper for a great distressed look. I colored the … Read More ...
Faux Metal with Embossing and Wax
Wow, the frame on this card from Vicky looks like it’s metal but it’s actually paper! She used an embossing folder/die combo to create the shape and depth and then added metallic waxes over top for a faux metal look … Read More ...